Have you ever gotten an inaccurate rifle?

4runnerman, I think you've totally missed a few of my posts. My best shooting rifles I've ever owned are Stevens 200 rifles that I put together in 6X47 and .243 Win. I've never owned any other Savage rifle than the Stevens 200, but I've still got a decent shooting .250 Savage and .358 Win in Stevens 200 rifles besides my 6X47. Plus I have a bone stock Stevens 200 other than cutting the stock down to 12.5" and stoning the trigger that shoots around an inch with 55 grain Barnes Vortex ammunition and better than 1/2" with my 55 grain Blitz King hand loads.

I don't like Varmint/Bull barrel rifles and that's why I sold my .243 Win Stevens 200. I'm a hunter and I've not had any problems getting any of my Winchester, Mauser, and Remington rifles to shoot as well as my Stevens 200's, and most with nothing else than finding a load that they like. Plus I can pick up a M700 ADL package for $375 plus tax at WalMart, and I can't get a Savage 10/110 for that anymore. Sure I can pick up an Axis rifle for $300 but I don't like the rifles no matter how well they shoot.

I can swap barrels as easily on my M700's as a Savage these days with RemAge barrels. I have all the tools from my Stevens 200 tinkering days to do it. Plus I can get aftermarket parts for the M700 easier and cheaper than I can the Savage 10/110, especially when it comes to quality hunting stocks. Plus I can find plenty of other cheap bolt actions that will shoot as well if not better than a stock Savage 10/110 these days. The Ruger American and T/C Venture are two that come to mind easily.

Anyway, there are a ton of good shooting cheap rifles out there get what floats your boat. For affordable rifle Savage has priced their 10/110 out of the game for me. They just don't offer that much IMO for the price they are starting to ask for them. Now if I was looking for a LR rifle Savage LRP and Ruger Precision rifle would be tops on my list for a factory rifle, but I'd probably just wind up building something.
 
In the mid-1990s I bought a new Ruger All-Weather bolt gun in 7.62x39. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it. As it turned out I went to a armorer's class at Trinidad State Junior College the next week and I took the rifle with me. We examined the bore and it looked like the cutting tool was vibrating as it passed through the bore. The next day one of the instructors passed through our class handing out a list of take off barrels he had, one being a Ruger VT 26" 6mm PPC barrel for $60.00. It has the same bolt face size and headspaced perfectly. It shoots exceedingly well. I have the 7.62 barrel somewhere.
 
I bought a Stevens 325 that had a rotted out barrel. It was obvious until I cleaned all the fouling out that the rifling was wallowed in places. It shot about 8" groups at 100 yards.

I ordered a new barrel for it and and dropped it off a my favorite gunsmith to get it fixed. He wasn't fast but he was always pretty good. Then I went back some years later and he had closed up shop and was nowhere to be found. A common friend gave me his cell number and we never could connect. The next time I called his cell, it had been disconnected.

Later on I got a call from that friend in common that my rifle had been left with them and I could get it at anytime... It wasn't what I expected. He put another barreled action in my stock and kept or maybe lost my new barrel. It seems to shoot OK but I haven't put much time into it. I gave it to one of my grandsons. I original dropped it off for work about 10 years before my grandsons were born...

Other than this one, I haven't gotten a bad rifle. I can't shoot well with iron sights and my M94 Winchester went from being and OK shooter to a damn fine rifle after installing a Redfield peep I picked up 2nd hand...

Tony
 
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